Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu Guild Hall

Located on Xufu Street, Guild Hall was built in the Qing Dynasty, sponsored by the collected money from Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces and used as the gathering and meeting place for the people of these three provinces. The present Guild Hall is part of the Guandi Temple and is well-known for its brick sculptures, stone carvings and wooden sculptures. The 12 meter long screen wall is inlayed with brick carvings of human figures, birds, animals, flowers and fruits.. On the back of the wall is a 2 sq. meter stone carving with a design of two dragons playing with a pearl set right in the middle, twelve small dragons coiling around them together with beautiful flower patterns. The wooden carvings in the flanking halls, bell and drum towers and memorial arched buildings form a magnificent long corridor of all kinds of wooden works of arts.